"You want to give me chocolate and flowers? That would be great. I love them both. I just don't want them out of guilt, and I don't want them if you're not going to give them to all the people who helped mother our children."

-- Anne Lamott

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“We're capable of understanding that someone has to drop an atomic bomb on a town of innocent civilians, but not that others have to cut up prostitutes who spread disease and moral depravity in the slums of London. Hence we call the former realism and the latter madness.”

Source : Jo Nesbo (2010). “The Snowman: Harry Hole 7”, p.245, Random House
“There is no budget for travel for a Shadow Foreign Secretary.”
“Africa can stun you in an instant. It can throw floods and drought and disease at you, sometimes all at the same time. In the next moment, it will tease you with its magnificent beauty, so even if you don't forget, you can find a way to forgive. Ultimately, it keeps you coming back for more.”
“A lot of my students are Asian-American, and it has been thrilling to watch them break through the stereotypes into something alive and surprising.”
“To see a candle's light one must take it into a dark place.”
“Thereâ€™s so much distance between the fundamental rules and the final phenomenon, that itâ€™s almost unbelievable that the final variety of phenomenon can come from such a steady operation of such simple rules.”
“If your concern is that I may be overcome with manly ardor and ravish you in a moment of weaknessâ€¦ I may. If you ask nicely.”
“I only met Margaret Thatcher twice. The thing that I thought about meeting her was how extraordinarily intelligent she was. You really had to be on your game; otherwise, she'd make mincemeat of you.”

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